THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1918. THEATRES. THEATRE8. WPS-NQT EXCUSESe" THE MARCH RETURN. THE THE DRAIN ON MEN-MATERIAL.
AND KEEP UP THE SUPPLY I (By Our Avlatloii CorrMpondent) Lord Rothermere's message to the aerodrome workers of Great Britain to hasten construction work marks the particular problem of the moment, that of maintaining our superiority in. aircraft in spite 'of the heavy and continuous drain caused by the greatest and what may prove to be the-longest battle over fought. The test of our resources is to be measured in terms of British casualties. During March 137 British machines were reported as against 372 German machines destroyed and 205 driven down (the French figures aro not includea here). Although the balance is very' greatly in our favour, the loss of 137 machines in month is no light matter; and we have to do more than replace casualties we must seek ever to increase our preponderance over enemy.
The convey little to the ordinary reader. The fighting that entailed" these casualties, to which must be added a 'few machines that were, shot down, represents only a small iterfl in the work of. the air, service. In addition, the wear and tear ot material during March went on at an unprecedented rate and, 'apart from pilots actually "missing," the personnel nave had' to -work at a pressure that cannot be kept up indefinitely. ENEMrS LAST RESOURCES.
as are our; training must be made for the maintenance in the field of a very much greater air service than has. hitherto been contemplated. Germany is straining every and is more favourably placed than Great Britain in matters of training ground and weather conditions. We have the means to surpass anythinglhat the enemy can do if we have the wi; There is little question that for the great battle tbe Germans assembled every available machine, leaving other parts of the Front poorly provided. It is almost certain, that our freedom from raids during, this moon has been due to the enemy's concentration of effort towards Amiens and Paris, a fact that clearly shows their resources are not unlimited, and, in fact, that they have to watch supplies very closely.
In spite of the loss of some of our aerodromes, the British aerial effort has not waned for. a single moment. Our American French Allies have been greatly impressed. We must concede, however, that thesenemy have kert going to such good purpose that last week the Balance, although-- always against them, was less than it was Against that, however, is to be scored the all-important fact that when the, second great attack began on the new front last Thursday British airmen had done far more effective photographic reconnaissance than the enemy. The writer is convinced that we have' yet to "reap, the-' full harvest of the ascendancy our airmen nave won.
THE WAR'S RKATiTTLES. The story of the battle has yet to be told in detail. It would surely -be a spur to the nation's endeavour if some, idea of the magnitude and' importance of the aerial part of it were published. The daily, statement of so many tons of bombs 'drcrppeorand rounds of fired conveys little to' the -general reader. The aerodrome worker should be made to realise what these things To all ex the south-east of Eneland id th East' vnirmffisa vttfdri The complaint that te names of airmen' wbSl greatly distinguish themselves are not immediately-published does not strike, any responsive chord in the Air Force or -in' official quarters.
There is really no reason why the airman should receive different treatment in this respect than the heroes; in other 'branches, whose nam Be-some of 'them we' learn later from the lists of awards. Recently published statements to the effect that the Germans celebrated their hundred- air raid on Great Britain early last month disclosed a discrepancy in official records. In deed, a recent oinciai statement in Parliament eivine the number of raids was found, on refer ence to the. newspaper files, to -leave out of the count four or nve oi, the smaller raids. According to the present writer's calculation, the hundredth raid was that, of December 22 last.
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the curfew rvgimer: even) though jt Jfajresee a time, not many weeks hence wtS-n it'con echo the com- lusuui, or mo Qvcvensonian cnua la sammer, quit'o- tbe other way, -I havo to "to to bed Jy day. But, in giving ourselves credit a cheerful acquiescence, mt-xisrrrjrrrberjthat tho population of London ii 3TJgoo4 3'eaColder aiioro nerious, and more hard-worked than usual. It consists, in fact, largely of middle-agocCf o)k who Would not-in any case find great joy in tho Small Our standards have irone back to tjm: i i j. vud uiiu unoo'Uxoin1 id is oniy uie confirmed Bohemian, wn boast of hearing Ucinics oinidjjght.i T- The rumours of CoupliQzetnio.f pproaching retirement may well- be-rtrne, fii comedy with tho is over, and compliments to President rWilsom cease, to he' flattering when they are acxmpaiii'ed by repudiation of every ideal that Presid ant, stands for. The Courrt'hnS'rKleh' the miners puppet of Germany the twrj Atrmanor in (he great Teutonic organ, which, unlike.
other sxmany '2tocethhu man ft- The week has seen an. unusual freedom in tho mentioning of. tvho was in command of ther Fifth ArrayJ'and we know who has sucoeedeLnimr'j'We'M of; the men who received Prince i.lichnowsjcy's memorandum, and hopo yet to learfi nam of? thai nonymo benefactor of rihej; -Bntiah Empire, tho State official who' i sent it abroad for publkion. But areVnot ret porraiTOja a Know vjrj name fans church which was struck hy a shell, from tha long-range gun- --S; Ono b'f tho autographs for the ed Cross tah is the fonr-fold At ali 'twas thus I wrote toj na J.Barrle.!;, At twelve It was not qnlte aaraa, At fortr-nfty it was so: J. M.
B. And soon I think the will so J. B. Onlv Sir James' mndrMt-ir forKM. Mm template the possibility.
that his rdtirnate signs- still more concise i form "Dr. Leonard Williams talbfd tbe oiher day about the feminina habit (pro-war) ot eating "Bath buns and buttor-ocotch and other of these delicacies have now gone, and boph sexes' must face the. possibility that they mar never return. has Jwon pointing out, the'twarcity1: will continue for years after Hrwwaf, and it 13 impossible to fix time when the grim shadow of Dora will bo, removed from the tea-table. In the era of abetmrjneo tastes may radically change i even under Olio's eyes to prefer their teasugarlessv'who never took less than three lumps.
So: it is quite possible that many of the strange jand tibles which -nicltbe will disappear for go1-BaJtli may know no more its bun, or Eccles ijtV0ij 1 1 it is natural. In Uio cireumstances, tn drop a tear of sympathy amaUiboT whose paradise in nonrjV'tirnV at the pastry-cook's. i and fow iir lim and there is no expects tiab that these' things will be plentif ul till hp has grown beyond" tftsfbr.theraaiEcari- not thintc that Uie Isct that be is to be allowed full rations fromjtoM be accounted an adnit jXnipertlon for the immemorial to 'make itself sick with the Wrrjn. tliiK A A The idea of a NationH VaTr: Muset is -'i-cellent, but the saBWgoi'oOidtX fOiiScer ment is time for. a "schema.
ter fbr' the'i erection': in nyae x'aric or cjsownere. arm en tone one ol tbe taosuren larfcable rjulld- ins in Europe "VC and theyipJgBjg.exMmbmy.' A sense of rather to recommend that thel as simple and restHctcd MossIoTuview of the fact that theft naU boTaTEmdii prior claims to our money' BJiflU' energy ifdrmany Charity can hardlygor furtiiej tanfin yes terdav'n 'Hiiror. nhrAofrrnnri is given of a 6ermaTt crashed to audi tlft. How art thou fallen. Heaven A delichtful little bit of wadronnri in the sLiverpool VpoUceS courts the dsvi where-.
an-- OrieriUliMMes wheri a Caiinanlr'fstilrrrilB for; Thernrrinltayefirf assumed a mysticalesiMtsri nanio and the person much so'uia't iWMfK-lri aoovo an Liuiif iietiiiasry iijorOTi one rp! nsrri' from an enenlv leflt. work -you Tthrough namothe.narae' whi'itiv Co -his fellow-inen-f was auuply Jiagt real-name, was tne mopt intimate or secrets. The superstition; rans nil history thvJ secret name of 'Jehovah; name of Rome but it is still curious to find it cropping up in a tweieUi-COTtu, police. court. The American boy catholic tastes in literature.
Ten years ago: tho University of Illinois 'made Inquiry; of twentv-fOur AMnc-in libraries as to thp twolve rnWt popular books with their boy Trcajrore Island second'; place jinjtheyisi. A second inquiry just completed hnds.the Raino story at the top of, the poll by-iisastim ifil resulfr'ia; the 'morOffltfviStrrig because. Treasure ws-iVnott. its first appearance, a great favormte'with'boys this country. The expert who calculatesi that -the loog- range shells reach a noignt'oi.
weinw. rniieveaTOrnie limit of ouratmosphere find himself An disagreement with astronomers and who infer "frorn.observs-tipns of meteors andJtho (furora borealis and australis QthePp-is, n' yrecogiiisablo atmosphere', at 'leastcuThtymilos above the earth, nd Battcm ton dea sent up fdrireleOTOtogtOTr'rinvestiga-lnm Vinvn nttainwl raV.b"ciiiht,'.''6f twentv-two 'miles and bfoiighf with'-lhem-auUu neeBsure at" nver any clouds Wa. a Xjamaasae is constant ge'olt. OCO One, of the little ottentiona whi3 I am told, has been 'most rpajSkrriatelby ths Lwoanded from tho froi thp stotionsof groupi o'fOT to each arrival a smtSScrbflawe iteU.t2,r?w a Wutifol oiietof Ithteirifc's'. first jr i ouift.
xi i mm i i Artists, THE ROFAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. It is not the personality of tho President, Mr. Frank Brangwyn, but that of the poet-painter, Mr. F. Foottct, that seems to dominate the 149th B.B.A.
exhibition-now on view at Suffolk-street. Mr. Brangwyn has contented himself with sending a rather insignificant water-colour, Tho. Platelayers," whilst his faithful followers, Miss E. Hope and Mr.
E. A. Cox, are not to be found in their accustomed places, so that the" Brangwyn School is only represented by a few excessively sloppy' pieces trom the brush of the Japanese Chuji Kurihara, and tho somewhat more scholarly figure Judith," by Miss Madeline Wells a picture which, though far from colourless, lacks the opulent orchestration of Mr. Brangwyn's palette. From tho ineffective poiychromy of Miss Wolls one turns with real pleasure to the almost monochrome, but atmospheric and vibrant, Thames Morning, London and Evening, London," by Mr.
F. Foottet. There is more suggestion of real colour in this artist's severely restricted palette a blue scheme in one case, and shimmering blue and rose in tho other than in all Miss Wells's variegated mosaio of multifarious tints. More than onco Mr. Foottet'a landscapes, improvisations based on recognisable facts, havo suffered from an excessive simplification resulting in mere emptiness, owing to a certain disproportion between bis ambitious scale and the poverty of subject matter.
Tho complaint certainly does not apply to these two! Thames pictures. Scale and touch are perfectly adjusted to sub ject matter, and the design, though' simplified, is not reduced to a mere skeletons Nor doe an unusually close adherence to facts lead to ir. i. un loss oi poeuc suggesuveuegs. uir.
reached his high-water mark, and he has arrived at the point where he invites emulation. Mr. Stafford Leake has obviously learnt from him. He has more emphasis that Mr. Foottet, but nevertheless his blue- and green Vienue," his blue Admiralty Arch," and his flaming "Brandon Bridge" might easily pass for the older, painter's work.
More re mote is the kinship of Mr. Arthur Stewart, whoso "Chelsea" and "Kensington" are Foottet schemes without the Foottet texture, and therefore thin and boneless. Mr. Barry's war nocturnes are again conceived on monochromatic lines, with a slight leaning towards pointillism. More than ever tho R.B.A.
exhibition derives what interest-it has. from landscapes. Mr. Elphinstone returns with a vigorous, fresh, and bold painting of grass-clad cliffs rising from a deep blue sea to a sky of almost equally intense bluo, "The Ensign." Mr. Littleiohns "The Torrent" is a fantasy rather than a realistic landscape, a rich colour arabesque of considerable charm.
The blaze of full sunlight on meadow and healthy, frolicking children continues td be Miss Dorothea Sharpe's favour ite motive, treated with a breadtn that verges on brutality. Another woman painter who wields her brash with masculine vigour is Miss Marcella Smith, whose In the Harbour, St. Ives, Cornwall," is a thoroughly sound piece of landscape painting. Extreme modernism finds its solitary exponent in Mr. G.
Carline, whose "Arrangement in Colour (without subject) is an abstraction for which it would be difficult to find "a raison d'Stre, except, perhaps, as a design to be executed in embroidery for a cushion in a "futurist" room. The water-colours In the North-West Gallery are. on tho whole, of an unusually high order of merit. P. G.
KONODT. JOHN SWAIN observed tlnat the enemy has failed to advance north of the Somme, while to the south; th Fianco'Britieh forces ha've'slopped his ontuih. tb Court. FOX AND GEESE." "Fox and Geese," by Susanne B. Day and G.
D. Cummins, which Mr. Arthur Sinclair and his Irish Players produced last Monday at the Court, proved to be a light and pleasant comedy of agricultural life. It showed Mr. Sinclair (whom we took to be the fox) es a well-to-do farmer, who successfully avoided got-ting betrothed to any of the many girls that were after him.
Ho. had a narrow squeak for it once, when a certain Miss'Katie Downey impersonated tho ghost of his dead mother and ordered him, as with a voico from the tomb, to marry Katie Downey and no other. But the Widow Maguire gavo the show away in. a moment of panic. He had another narrow squeak when a very young but very wideawake young lady, Miss Mary Fitzgibbon, went for him in her peculiar and telling fashion.
But ha contrived, to-plant her on an admiring young-ster and himself remained a bachelor in Bpito of all. Tho last act becamo a little tedious before it was over, and tho piece as a whole was a little thin and lacking in variety. But it gave some fair chances to Mr. Sinclair, Mr. Svdney J.
Morgan, Miss Kathleen Drago, and others in the cast. Mr. Sinclair was even more amusing in tho preceding one-act play, Mr. Thomas King Moy-lan'a "Tactics." We hope that this may appear again in the bill during the Irish Players' season at the Court, for it is amusing all through and ends with a very comical surprise. YESTEBDAY'S CONCERTS.
The concert activities which were Interrupted by the Easter recess were resumed yesterday afternoon. At the Queen's Hall students of Trinity College of Musio gave an invitation orchestral concert. At tho Vv lgmoro Hall the Entente Cordials Society and three kindred organisations to promote Anglo-French amenities gave a concert of modern French and English music. Three English composers, Messrs. John Ireland, Eugene Goossens, and Roger Quilter, took part in person, tho other artists being Miss Olga Haley and M.
Desire Dcfauw. The only unfamiliar work was Mr. Eugene Goossens' Kaleidoscope for piano ana series of short descriptive piano pieces, sometimes humorous and always brilliantly clever, which are now in tho press. As an exchange of international courtesies M. G.
Jean-Aubry addressed the audienco on English and Mr. Edwin Evans on French music. At the Eolian Hall a Polish concert was given in aid of Polish, children in London. Tho niturio included examples of Paderewski, Mon-inszko, Wioniawski, Bilinski, and some others, whose Polish nationality Is less clearly established. Chopdn- was represented by piano pieces (Mr.
Frederick Dawson), a song (lime. Agolini Gawlowska), and his rarely heard duet for piano and 'cello (Miss Maude Dixon and Mr. Felix Sabriond). Tho other artists included Miss Murray Lambert, Mr. Boris Bomoff, and, last but not least.
Professor Emilo Saiiret. LATEST WILLS. The following wills have been proved: Mr. John Fyke Wilson, of Arntide, Westmoreland Mr. Henry Lucas, of Clifton, Bristol 70,040 Mrs.
Susannah Bovren, of Bcccles 3,300 Mr. Joseph Saisoon Sbjjood, of Ashley Park, Waltonon-Thames 43,477 Lieut. Montmorency Beaumont Beaumont Chcckland, member of tho Inner Temple-and of the Midland Circuit (killed In action 1S.8S2 ALUtD UNE'-March 31 1918. mm i. April In the above map fie shaded portion thow approximately the.
extent of ground gained ly the enemy during the patt week. It will be TBI mEuNsjjfoarE.fi Di 1 nr irjrui-Ai inraam in Bawt i vesp'P TXriKBLXDOK. Nlghtiy. TJtt. MATINEES.
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GEdSSSHTH and LAURILLABD, ny arrancemem wiin presents "IJIHE JJING Boys Written by Fred Thompson and Harry M. Vernon. Music by Nat D. Ayer. Lyrics by CUBord Grey.
The Play produced by Hy. M. Vernon. Staged by Gus Sohlke. GEORGE VIOLET XJOBEY.
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"YyEEDON ai RO'3SMITII JT In now Farce, EORGE W. H. SQUIRE. Violoncellitt; LILY JPAIBNEY. Mezzo Contralto; MAHIB TaTOVELLO.
GRAVES and Co. in "KOFFO OF BOND STREET." gTOPPING rpiIE TOREACH, by Herbert Thomaa. T7IRED Cast includes MAY PALFREY and OWEN TUPREZ, The J- Pianist. American In their Comedian. repertoire.
jA JETITE JINA MOTOR-CYCLING SEALS. ROUGHWOOD. TJiOM QLARE. Songs at the Piano. DAUNTON 8KAW TROUPE.
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An Operetta in 3 AfU. CLARA BUTTER WORTH. JAMIESON DODDS. FRANK. LALOR.
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(Revue starts at 2.45 p.m. and 8.30 p.m.) aua. miAO i Produced by Albert de Courville. SHIRLEY KELLOGG. HARRY TATE.
etc. The Hippodrome Beauty Chorus. Gerrard 450. EOivDON pavilISn. s'tXn vabiess: MARIE- LLOYD.
VIOLET LORAINE. HARRY nn.XIcnv U'lt HIE VrUVNlVDa VTDT A I 1 OUA1.UD1 WAUrUUO, LKMUU Ob nnnlA UUPm PIT71ERA I.T1 T1TE FBIVTrvlu ARTHUR GILROY. GEORGE WILBEY, MORTON BOWMAN, Ac. EvenlngBjSX o. jueiinee et tlb M.
Baker-strBtn. The roost inexpensive, enjoyable, and instructive House ot Entertainment In London. Free Cinemetn- rapn l-icturee. jLfeuaai.Lu( aiu.i.-- rar maps ana ielics Explained Daily. Aiternoon Teas etc Admission is, lax i-uiiaren nnaer fid, tax Sd.OUlLlO.
S-VXFORD THEATBE. TWICE DAILY, at 2.30 and 7.30. Charles B. Cochran's Great BAIRNSFATHER Flay, THE BETTER 'OLE. (Smoking permitted.) Bv Capt.
Bruce Bairnslather and CapU Arthur Eliot ARTHURBOURCHIER as Old ill." TrSlaT.I.ArilUM. 2 30. 6. 8.20 BLU.Y MERSOfT Jr NEIL KENYON. WILKIE BARD, ALFRED LESTER GUfri ELEN, GARADINI, FRANK WHITMAN.
DAINTY DORIS, BESSIE CLIFFORD. CINEMAS. iTOLL PICTURE THEATRE. kYnGSWAY. (3 (Indon Ojwra House).
Holborn TO-DAY (SUNDAY), to 10J. Special Concert and Cinema. Vocalist. ETHEL HOOK. Mislii" the ifi'de (S U).
OLGA PETROVA in "the Law of the Land" 5 acts), etc. THURSDAY (2.0 to 10.30), Dustin Farnum in Dnrand -t Bad Lands" (5 acts). Bupert JulUn and Rubv La Fayette in Mother Love 15 acts), etc. pri Ke.ent.,trert. To-nignt, 6 to iuv.
MARY PICKFORD in lie BUHKVJJHOOK FARM. CHARLIE CHAPLIN, CHARLIE CHAPLIN, 40. To-morrow, continuous I.W to 10.30. Gerr. 3073.
FOR FRANCE. Sensational 3tory pi To-day. HUSBAND ON APPROVAL, Great Comedy, XV jastaoiisoea mil a century. M.OOO JopU attended Uw perlormnci In lMf. Th Carl Bou Company hu presented ORAIJD praA In English to well over MjOOO.WO PEOPLE in the UXA WO "'if wv.
This Week; Grcfnoo. Theatre Royal. Leeds. ri UOY." DELPHI. Qer.
7MS. Evenings, wwi mo HTBerry, Nellie Taylor, Meidie Hope. Donald Calthrop.Maudia Dunham. Peter Oawthorne. sole essee.
anos April t. at Matinee. Sole Lessee. Charles B. Cochran.
TUS-. TOO MUCH nCH MONEY, by ISRAEL ZANGWTLU I POLLO. (Oor. SU3.) INSIDE THE LUTES. LAST WEEK.
DAILY, at 2.J0. 4 WVTOTTNGS. and at 8. TPOLLO. "Phone, Gerr.
BO. Tom B. Davis. ssea ana Manas ex. OEOHGE GBOSSMITH and EDWARD ITjBTaD will Trofi.
JJE JABEFCL, JJABVI A Farce In 3 Acts. Bt Salisbury Held and Margaret Mare. Produced by Felix Edwards. FIRST MATINEE SATURDAY, APBIL TOMEDY. WED.
NEXT, at J.30 and Subseauent Evenings, 7.4S. Mate. Sat. THE KNIFE. a w.rnlni in a Prelude and 3 Acts, by Eugene Walter.
COURT (Gerrard 848.) ARTHUR SINCLAIR and THE IHW1I PLAYEB3: NIbtly, 7J0. v.l. i.30. THE COINER. THE BUILDING FUND." DUTY." April 15, THE PLAY-BOY OV THE WESTERN WORLD." CiUiiutlun.
uerr. JK.av mw. Nif aUr, at 8. Mat. ti at US.
"A LITTLE BIT OF FLUFF." (3rd Year.) -ALY'B. THE MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS. A' The OSOROE EDWAKD9 ITOCUOUOn. -Ind YEAR. ori de JTreoe.
Mark Leiter, Bertram Wallla. Thorp Batea, Mabel Monroe. iTyDnke, AND J4 GoUlna. MOifTLY. at 7-45.
Tnea. and at t. DRURY tANE THEATRE ROYAL. Maaaflnc Director, AJRTI TWICE DAILY, at X.30 and RTHUB COLLINS. TWICE DAILY, at X.30 ana JO.
mVHENCXNa WEDNESDAY NEXT. April at J. Cli Gnat Historical jFflm -JOAN THE -OMAN (Joan ol Arc.) RESERVED PRICES, Ss. 6d. to ta.
TiNEESERVED. Us. and including tax. Bex-ogee nowoPen. 'Phone.
SW Oerrara. DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE. JJVENING3 AT 8.20e and at 1.10. Albert do c'ouirillo presents Bayard VeiUer- Drama. IJUIE J3TH QHAHL MRS.
PATRICK CAMPBELL. Telephone. Gerrard 314. ADZTY. "THE BEAUTY SPOT." Erie, at 7.45.
Wed. and 2.15. Tom Walla. Anetln Mel-iord. Georje Barrett.
Felix Ford. Oy-re. Mai.i. Qay, Petiy Kurton, Jean Cadell. Ereljrn Laye.
and REG INK KLOy. G.RRICK Gerrard $SVL Lessee Mr. Charles B. Cochran. TWICE DAILY, at 2.30 and JJY TJ1GEON TJOST.
New PUy, by Anstin Pafa. 7 MADGE TITHERADGE. V. France. A.
E. Qeprf a. SicLer. A. B.
HomeTrood Hubert WClls. 1 Kate Phillips. Dorothy Lane. ARTHUR WONTNER. i nitp Gerrara LOBE.
t-k- jyj-Amii juua. EVERY EVENING, at Mi. MATINEES, WEDS, and SATS, 1.11. JOVE JN A JOTTAaE. By W.
Somerset Mao ham. AYMABKET. Phono, Bee 6m Iueo and Manaser, Frederick Harrison. MATINEE DAILY, at S.30. EVERY EVENING (exc.
Tuea. and FrLl, In coninnction with Percy HuUbison and Herbert Jay in coojum.u Frederick Harrison presenU GENERAL POST, by J. E. Harold Terry. LILIAN BKA1THWAITK GERTRUDE LANG.
GEORGE TUIXY. NORMAN MchJNNEL. HLS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. 03CAR AS CUE and LILY BRAYTON'S SEASON. TO-MORROW (MONDAY), at j.lS and TJ0.
JHU (JHIN QHOW. After To-morrow (Monday) Erenlng and until iurther notice, MATINEES DAILY, at IS, and KVEXINC3 and TJ0. SPECIAL MATINEE TOMORROW IMONDAY). AID oi Y.M.C.A. HUTS FUND.
KENSINGTON. Edward Compton's Theatre. NIGHTLY, at 7.30. Mitineee, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at UO. Harold V.
Neilson presents TVIANA QF TOBSON'S. Box-office (Hop. 1004) open 10 to 10. XrENNlXGTON THEATRE. April ijL LEIGH LOVEL and OCTAVIA KENMORE in Ibsen play.
jv uvuua ilkjuob- KING'S THEATRE. NIGHTLY, a TJJ, XV Hammersmith 1H. MATINEE THURS, at 2J4. Miss LENA ASH WELL and the Ladles' Committee of Y.M.C-A. present Miss EVA MOORE and Compy.
in jgLJZA JOMES TO gTAY. Prices Sd. to 5s. Apr. 15, THE LITTLE "BROTHER.
KING8WAY. WHEN NIGHTS WERE BOLD. SIXTH MONTH. BROMLEY CHALLENOB. MAEJORIE BELLA IRS.
MATINEES DAILY. 2J0 EVENINGS. WKDB. and 7.45. LYCEUM." SEVEN DAYS' LEAVE." Entirely New Play by Walter Howcrd.
Produced by Walter and Fredk. Melrille. "Clerer Drama." Erg. News. TWICE DAILY.
S.30 and 7. Prices, inclnding tax, 5s. 9d. to 8d. Seats booked from 3s.
Early doors pit and gallery. Gerr. 7617. LYRIC. 3rd Year.
DORIS JEEANE. (Licensee. F. W. Tibbetts.) Erenlnge.
at 8. MaU. Wed. and at JJ5. BORIS KEANE in ROMANCE.
BASIL SYDNEY. CECIL HUMPIiKEVU. NEW THEATRE. Regent 44M. Props, Sir Charles Wyndham Miss Mary Moore.
Under tbe management ot Dion Boucicanlt. TO-MORROW (Monday) EVERY EVENING, at 7.4S. MATINEES. THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS, at 230. yONICA'S JJLUE JJfY.
A Musical Playlet, without words. By ARTHUR PI NERO and FREDERIC COWEN. At the Tint Periormance the Composer will personally conduct. Followed by B1 IELINDA. An Arril Folly in 3 Acts.
By A. A. MILNE. TBENE VANBRUGE. BEN WEBSTER.
DENNIS NEUJiON-TERRY. I30BEL EI30M. PALACE. I'AMELj. Return ci LILY G.
P. HUNTLEY, OWEN NARES. Nellie Briercliite, George Tavrde. Spencer Treror. Evenings at 7.45, Wed.
and Sat. 7.30. PHILHARMONIC HALL. DAILY, at Z3 and 8. a I1E GREATEST MOTION PLAY OF THE WORLD, QHRI3TU8.
Grand Orchestra. Full Choir. Soloists. As witnessed by The Queen and Queen Alexandra. lslo 7s.
td. Boxes 3 gus. 'Phone. Maylalr 3003. PLAYHOUSE.
Charing CrosI On THURSDAY Next, April 11, at 7 JO in conjunction with FRANK CURZON and GLADYS COOPER CHARLES HAWTREY and GILBERT MILLER will produce a Comedy in Three Acts THE NAUGHTY WIFE, oy Fred JacksoD. Elaborated and revised by Edgar Selwyn. CHARLES HAWTREY. STANLEY LOGAN. ELLIS JEFFREVS.
GLADYS COOPER. Matiaees subsequent Thursdays and Saturdays, at 1.30, pRINCE OF WALES. Flora," by Harry Grattan Jo Nightingale, Ralph Lynn 1 Jfllt Williams, and Gertie Millar. Ergs? 7 30 and Sets, at 2. PRINCES.
8imonr Hicis and EUaline TerrUs. George Grossmith and Edward LautUlard's Season. oj arranement with Charles B. Cochran. at 7.45.
Mats, Wed. and Sat, at 2. "YES, ONCLEI" New Musical Comedy. J7Jfced by Austen Hurgon. Gerrard 3400.
utES 8. Shiitesburj'-arenue. Qer iSf Licensed by the Ird ChamberUIn to Alired Butt BAILY AT 2.30. E'GS-TO-MORROW (Monday), Thursday, and Saturday, at gREWSTER'3 ILLIONS. rgRCY HUTCHISON ss Monty Brewster.
Royalty DAjry jM SST5E EVENINGS: Thursdays and 'Saturdays, at 7.J0. THE PRIME MINISTER, by HAM. HATVI! CTREI. IRVING. c.
7TA T.T.Ann Vr lessee. B. Irring. wen-' Jnurs, is Sat, 2J. Presents THE TRUTH.
gHAFTESBURY THEATRE: Gerr.rds 5. Evert- Evening, at 7.45. eooo. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday, at 1. HLETTE.
JOSEPH QOYNE. TW-1N1FRED fAHNES gTANLEY JUPINO. S'liiJI- (Gerrard 3903.) VALENTINE. Lessee. Reprejentativ.
ol late Sir George Alexwder! Performances. FVI.Niv,AT1Ef:S DAILY, at 240. 2EYjjJMTHUBgUAY NEXT, at 7.30. ShalUsbury-av, W.C. unsee.
B. A. Meyer. Sole B. Cochran.
8.30 EVHY EVENINQ. TJ.X THL-RS. and SAT, at 2 JO. sleeping partners." Fr.rA vJ Seymour Kicks Irom the rrencn ol Sacha Guitry's "Faisons un RSve." "ETMOUR hicks. open 10 to 10.
rm, 30ADGE I.B8STNG. Phone. Ger. 341! 1243. 3830 and City 3355.
luesdar njjt and every even ns 7 JO. 'BETTY ATBAY PRESENTS Wtd'-' Thnrs, and Sais, at 2.30. chEEPT" tSW.J.'E11 WHITE and CLAY SMITIlI BETRICE UI.UK: R-TTAN'S Ret-ord Revue, veilings, ,.45. Th 21Si BETTEE, BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH. (By Our Naval Correspondent.) 1-8 first monthly return of shipbuilding output shows that, in round figures, 160,000 tons ware completed in March.
Added to 60,000 tons for January and 100,000 tons for February, this gives tho total of 320,000 tons for tho first io year; a monthly average of a prospective output of 1,280,000 tons for the vear. This is not good enough; "but it must bo remembered that the March output is the best on record, and that the average is only low because the results of the January and February work were much below what the 85 a ri8hfc expect. If the output of 160,000 tons a month continued steadily throughout the year, the totl of new shipping in service at the end of it will be 1,760,000 tons, or 40,000 below the minimum anticipations of the ArlrniraJty. We require, therefore, an output of 200,000 tons a month for the remaining nine months, if the expectations of the Government are to bo met and slightly bettered, and, even then, we shall only have got a little more tlhan half-way towards the total which it has been declared that it is quite, possible for ns to reach. The American total is tvleo very considerably below expectations; almost the last available reserves have been drawn on by the requisitioning of tbe Dutch ships; and the immediate demands on tonnage for military purposes have been increased by the German offensive on the Somme and its consequences.
It cannot, therefore, be said that the outlook is very promising. We are not threatened with actual disaster, but with a tight period, which' the nation must make up its to endure. Tho period will come, oven if the output in those succeeding months should be quite satisfactorily increased. Output and losses by no means balance) for tho quartor. We have not got the tonnage figures of losses during March; but, calculating them on a reasonable basis, there -is a hiatus of about 100,000 tons, or something over half tho output.
Tho losses for March were high; the Germans evidently made a special effort, and we may reasonably hope for a considerable reduction during the preterit month, although April of last year was the most successful the Germans ever had. But it will take all the hard work the men in the shipyards can put into their job to make the account balance. The first return in April) is a good one, onlv fiv big ships being supk during the week which ended on Easter Sunday. But we kn6w too much now to be unduly "exhilarated by a single return. Perhaps the most satisfactory fwiture was the number of ships sixteen unsuccessfully attacked.
Though this means that the number of U-boats employed remains considerable, yet it is also possible to argue that our counter-measures ehow increasing efficiency. But' there is a great lemnt of luck in tho matter, for which a liberal discount must be made. According to the Shipping Correspondent of The Times," the workmen show more zeal in repairing damnged ships than in building new ones. He attributes this to tho fact that repairing is paid as piece-work, while the builders of new ships nro on time-rates. There may bo in the argument but it may very well be that tho sight of the vessel damaged hy submarine attack appeals I to the imagination of tho mon and makes them determined to have her at sea again in the shortest possible time, while the period at which tho new ship will be in service seems remote.
However, the tendency exhibited in some quarters to throw jvII tho blame for glow construction on the workmen, is of doubt-' fu.1 JitstSifiv -ITherft are many other "factors, 1 which wore freely discussed a few weeks ago. It seems certain that a really large output of merchant shipping can only be secured by organisation at the top. Lord Pirrie has yet ta prove liimself. His own yards celebrated his accession to office by a record week's work. It remains to be seen if he can infuse tho samo spirit, into all the yards of the country.
Ships not excuses, was the message of the American Controller to the yards, and that should be our motto, too. Gerard Fiennes. From T3l)e. Obsttrvix of 1818 April 5, 18 75.1 Price 7 J. Ancno Expedition.
On Saturday, about two o'clock, Lord Melville, accompanied by Sir George Warren der and Admirals Sir u. Mooro and Sir 7. Yorkc, arrived at Dcptford Dockyard and immediately went on board the vessels bound to the Arctic regions. They proceeded to insDect the eauiDment of the vessels every part. The Esquimaux went through hij various exercises witn nis canoe, ana ais-played his dexterity in throwing his darts, etc.
Captain Buchan goes direct to the Pole, and if he reaches there, will take such course as events will allow him for Bchring'a which is also the object of Captain Ross, (a) (a) This was Sir John Rojs's first Arctic voyage, and the subject of hl book, A Voyago of Discovery," published In 1810. The vessels failed to pcaetral tho Ico barrier. Buchan sailed In 1637 on another Arctic expedition, from which he never returned. Mature anb ttje ORNAMENTAL PLUMS. MMM The great season of blossoming trees has begun.
Forsythies aro nearly over; tho early Magnolias are in full flower, but the Japanese quinces which began in February aro only just attaining their full scarlet glory. Tho hosts of plums (beginning with the cherry plum (P. Cerasifera) and the almond (P. Amygdalus), which, have now finished thoir blossoming) offer scores of beautiful varieties. Two of the most deservedly renowned the double peach (P.
Persica, Fl. now making a deep rosy mist, and tho Japanese Cherry (P. Serrulata) not quite so far advanced. This tree has tho typical smooth cherry bark and long rather stiff and sturdy boughs, so thickly covered 'with flowers that, when they arc quite expanded, tho bough eoems to have been dipped in white or pink foam. A third very lovely and less well-known plum is P.
Subhirtella, a Japanese variety now at He best. The flowers are pale pink, contained in coral-coloured calyces the cherry-liko clusters grow very thickly, and although very fragile in appearance are remarkably hardy. The double-flowered P. Triloba is nearly over; its stiff ehoots, thickly covered with bright pink rosettes, aro rather formal, but ahowv. The double-flowered sloo (P.
Soinosa, Fl. PI.) hae very short-stalked, pare white rosettes, set all along its branches. Very neat and pretty. Towards the end of the month wp shall have the exquisitely fragrant, white-flowered Alalmlnri cherrv. which should be crown in rather poor soil and of which the weeping variety as most, graceiui t-no aoumo uean jr.
Avium) tho double wild cherry (P. Ccrasns) Mredith'6 beloved the double bird cherry (P. Padns). There are single varieties of all these, but they cannot compare for snowy colour and lasting "substance with the double kinds. The evergreen- shrubs commonly called Cherry and Portugal Laurels are also included In tho genus Prunus.
H. M. 3. in aid of tho Motherhood Leaaue. Miss Violet Loraino is organising a concert at Alhamfor-on April 21.
Amongst others appearing with her are Lnlian Braithwaito, fence Lyno, Aiioen D'Orroe, PhylUo Monkman, Iron Vaabrugh, Buchanan. Thorno Bates. Joseph Covne. George Robcy, irry Ta.te, Ernest Thcsiger, and Stroesco. Mr.
Ben Tillott, will speak. Tickets may bo obtained from Mrs. fa*gan, 71), Church-street, Clielsoa. av r- 'VJI are combined in the exquisite blouse (No. 0.603) illustrated.
Ma'deta iihesheer Muslin, 'with long rever front and square collar," inlet Valenciennes. I Hand made: 13-15. I lU71H I race a e-r. -r PtrHcultrt ar AfaaOb Httfrm. Robinson Cleaver, THE LINEN HALL, regent; la i a- a a if.
